How to make Excel cells expand to fit Text There are a few ways that you `can make your Excel cells fit text. You will most likely use a mixture of these methods depending on your project.

When text is too long to display in a label cell, you can use Microsoft Excel’s AutoFit feature to enlarge the cell enough to fit the contents.

Simply press CTRL and the numeric pad's + key—the non-Numpad + key won't work—to automatically resize all columns to fit the text contents.